RC32 - Public Policy and Administration

Registration for the Holland Scholarship, the new Dutch scholarship programme, starts 16 February 2015. This programme will enable 768 talented international students annually to study for a bachelor's or master's degree in the Netherlands. In addition, 768 Dutch students will have the opportunity to study, take up an internship or carry out research in a country outside the European Economic Area (EEA) for a minimum of 3 months.

Leuphana University Lüneburg’s Faculty of Sustainability is advertising four postdoctoral positions in its interdisciplinary program on Leverage Points for Sustainability Transformation, focusing on Institutions, People and Knowledge. Drawing on insights from systems thinking and solution-oriented transdisciplinary research, this project will focus on hitherto under-recognized leverage points – system properties where a small shift can lead to fundamental changes in the system as a whole. Leverage Points will focus on changes in relatively intractable, but potentially highly influential, system properties that could help to realign complex social-ecological systems to the normative goals of sustainability. For details on the project, see www.leveragepoints.org The deadline for all four positions is 10th March, 2015.

The main themes to be covered at the IPSA World Congress in Istanbul in 2o16 have now been announced.

The call for papers will be issue on 20 May.

The School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs at George Mason University seeks its first Dean. SPGIA is the result of a merger of two units-- the former School of Public Policy and the Department of Public and International Affairs.

Call for Papers: "Excursions, Encounters, Enactments: The role of sensory or first-hand experience in policy constructions" (Panel28)

This panel explores the role of policy-makers' sensory or first-hand experiences in the construction of policy `problems' and `solutions'. Such experiences can take the form of excursions to the site of a `policy problem' such as a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan, a nature reserve that shows obvious signs of environmental degradation, or a city's `problem neighbourhood'. First-order experience also happens through encounters with affected persons or with experts on the policy problem at hand. Excursions, encounters and other forms of sensory experience can take place spontaneously; most often, however, they are meticulously planned and enacted by those participating, for different audiences and to different ends. Politicians may strive to create a positive public image among their constituency by showing `presence on the ground' or wishing to `see/assess with their very eyes' the nature and extent of the problem. Yet also those who plan excursions and encounters and those who the politicians meet have their agendas and enact specific interpretations of a problem. Interestingly, there are examples where such instances of policy-makers' first-hand experience, no matter how limited they were, seem to have shaped their perception in a sustained manner.

Invitation to the International Public Administration and Public Policy Scientific Conference

DECENTRALIZATION POLICIES: RESHUFFLING THE SCENE May 7-10, 2015 University of Zagreb Centre for Advanced Academic Studies (CAAS), Dubrovnik, Croatia http://www.caas.unizg.hr

International Seminar “Governance of Public Policy: Cultures and Regimes in Networking Contexts” St. Petersburg, Russia, June 27-28, 2015 (English and Russian language) IPSA RC 48-Administrative Culture together with the Russian Political Science Association (RC on Comparative Politics) cordially invite you to submit proposals for the international seminar “Governance of Public Policy: Cultures and Regimes in Networking Contexts”, which will be held at the Saint-Petersburg State University, St.-Petersburg, Russia on June 27- 28, 2015.

The Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam invites applications for TWO Assistant Professor (Universitair Docent) positions in Global Public Policy, Transnational Governance, and/or International Relations. For one of these positions, we are seeking a scholar of Public Policy and Governance with a transnational and/or comparative focus. For the other position, we are seeking a scholar of International Relations with an focus on transnational governance broadly construed. The precise boundary between the two positions is fungible. Both positions are open with respect to regional expertise. Candidates for the first position will be expected to teach introductory and advanced courses in Public Policy and Governance and/or International Relations both within the Political Science Department (at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels) and within a new selective interdisciplinary undergraduate degree on Politics, Psychology, Law and Economics (PPLE, http://www.uva.nl/en/education/bachelor-s/bachelor-s-programmes/content/politics-psychology-law-and-economics/politics-psychology-law-and-economics.html). Candidates for both positions should contribute to the research profile of the Department's Research Programme Group 'Political Economy and Transnational Governance' (PETGOV, http://aissr.uva.nl/programme-groups).

The College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern University seeks nominations and applications from leading scholars and policy experts for the position of Director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs. The candidates’ discipline and field of expertise are open.

10 Fully funded PhD positions in POLITICAL SCIENCE and SOCIOLOGY for the academic year 2015-2016

Joint programme SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE and UNIVERSITY of BOLOGNA

   The programme focuses on the following three research  areas:  1.  Democracy and social movements ; 2. Comparative/global  public policy and  international governance;  3. Comparative politics and society.

   The grant is of three years; a fourth year can be added based on merit

   The activities will be held at the seat of Florence of the Scuola Normale Superiore